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FreeBSD Events

Please send details of any FreeBSD related events or events that
are of interest for FreeBSD users which are not listed here
to freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org.

Users with organizational software that uses the
iCalendar format can subscribe to the
FreeBSD events calendar
which contains all of the events listed here.

Countries and regions displayed in dark red on the map below
are hosting upcoming FreeBSD-related events. Countries that
have hosted FreeBSD-related events in the past show up in yellow
or orange, with darker colors representing a larger number of
previous events.

Current/Upcoming Events:

June 2019

Vienna Security Hackathon 2019, SBA Research, Vienna, Austria8 - 9 June, 2019This hackathon in Vienna is focused on security, but
this is not a strict requirement. The basic idea is to get
together with FreeBSD hackers to discuss and work directly on
issues resolving as many as we can over the long weekend.
Fixing bugs, writing code, adding features, improving the
documentation, working on ports, and such are all welcome
activities at the event. There is also a sightseeing tour
planned on the Monday after.

Berlin FreeBSD DevSummit, Bally Wulff Games & Entertainment GmbH, Berlin, Germany15 - 16 June, 2019This devsummit will be run "un-conference" style,
meaning that the agenda is made by the participants. People can
give talks or form working groups around a topic of interest.
Developers can invite guests by adding them to the wiki page.
You don't have to have a commit bit to contribute to this
event.

September 2019

EuroBSDcon 2019, Scandic Lillehammer Hotel, Lillehammer, Norway19 - 22 September, 2019EuroBSDcon is the European annual technical
conference gathering users and developers working on and with
4.4BSD (Berkeley Software Distribution) based operating systems
family and related projects.

Past Events:

May 2019

BSDday Argentina 2019, Departamento de Computacion de la Facultad de Ciencias
Exactas y Naturales de la Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina29 - 30 May, 2019The BSDday is an event where users, administrators
and developers of operating systems of type BSD come together to
share knowledge, talks, contacts and get to know each other. In
the event lectures, debates, courses and installations of the
systems will be exposed. The event is also a great entry for
Linux users, Unix and other operating systems to the BSD
world.

BSDCan 2019, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada15 - 18 May, 2019A four day BSD conference held in Ottawa, Canada.
BSDCan hosts talks and tutorials on a range of topics based
around the BSD family of operating systems.

April 2019

Hackathon 201904, University of Aberdeen, Fraser Noble Building,
Room 213, Aberdeen, United Kingdom17 - 19 April, 2019The Aberdeen hackathon is placed at the half way
point between AsiaBSDCon and BSDCan to give ardent hackers
something to fill their time. Deadline for registration is
March 31st, 2019.

FreeBSD Community Day, B3 Consulting Group, KÃ¤mpegatan 6, Gothenburg, Sweden07 April, 2019The FreeBSD Community Day in Gothenburg is hosted in
connection with the FOSS-north
conference. It is a public event for users, developers, and anyone with
an interest in FreeBSD, who wants to learn more about the project.

March 2019

AsiaBSDCon 2019, Tokyo University of Science, Tokyo, Japan21 - 24 March, 2019AsiaBSDCon is a conference for users and developers
on BSD based systems. The conference is for anyone developing,
deploying and using systems based on FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD,
DragonFlyBSD, Darwin and MacOS X. AsiaBSDCon is a technical
conference and aims to collect the best technical papers and
presentations available to ensure that the latest developments
in our open source community are shared with the widest possible
audience.

February 2019

FOSDEM 2019, Free University of Brussels, Solbosch Campus, Brussels, Belgium02 - 03 February, 2019The Free and Open Source Software Developers'
European Meeting (FOSDEM) is a free event for software hackers
to meet, share ideas and collaborate. Every year 8000+ open
source developers from all over the world gather at the event in
Brussels, Belgium. During the FOSDEM, developer rooms
(devrooms) are assigned to self organized open source groups and
projects to meet together and showcase their projects; a BSD
devroom will host talks about BSD operating systems and
projects. If you want to submit a talk, see the
CfP.

September 2018

EuroBSDcon 2018, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania20 - 23 September, 2018EuroBSDcon is the European annual technical
conference gathering users and developers working on and with
4.4BSD (Berkeley Software Distribution) based operating systems
family and related projects. EuroBSDcon gives the exceptional
opportunity to learn about latest news from the BSD world,
witness contemporary deployment case studies, and meet
personally other users and companies using BSD oriented
technologies. EuroBSDcon is also a boiler plate for ideas,
discussions and information exchange, which often turn into
programming projects. The conference has always attracted active
programmers, administrators and aspiring students, as well as IT
companies at large, which found the conference a convenient and
quality training option for its staff. We firmly believe that
high profile education is vital to the future of technology, and
hence greatly welcome students and young people to this regular
meeting.

August 2018

2018 Cambridge Devsummit (BSDCam), University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory, Cambridge, United Kingdom15 - 17 August, 2018An unconference style developer summit with a focus
on interactive topics and sessions that reflect the interests of
the attendees. The Cambridge devsummit is a slightly longer
three-day event without associated conference, letting us hold
more extended working groups, brainstorming sessions, and
hacking on topics over several days. Past significant focuses
have included virtualisation, network performance, sandboxing,
tracing/debugging, packages and package security, teaching,
non-x86 architectures such as ARM/MIPS/RISC-V, and
testing.

June 2018

BSDCan 2018, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada06 - 09 June, 2018A four day BSD conference held in Ottawa, Canada.
BSDCan hosts talks and tutorials on a range of topics based
around the BSD family of operating systems.

March 2018

AsiaBSDCon 2018, Tokyo University of Science, Tokyo, Japan08 - 11 March, 2018AsiaBSDCon is a conference for users and developers
on BSD based systems. The conference is for anyone developing,
deploying and using systems based on FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD,
DragonFlyBSD, Darwin and MacOS X. AsiaBSDCon is a technical
conference and aims to collect the best technical papers and
presentations available to ensure that the latest developments
in our open source community are shared with the widest possible
audience.

February 2018

FOSDEM 2018, Free University of Brussels, Solbosch Campus, Brussels, Belgium03 - 04 February, 2018FOSDEM is an event centered on free and open-source
software development. As with many other communities, the BSDs
feature an alloted room for giving talks at the event. See
schedule on the FOSDEM website for the talks held in the BSD
Developer room. The FreeBSD Foundation will also be present to
share information about the project.